Arena Subsidies In Small Towns: Update
In regards to my recent post on arena subsidies in smaller cities, Skip points out that it’s not only taxpayers who took a bath on arena …
How Archery Has Become A Great Sport To Try
Traditionally, the practice of using bows and arrows was primarily for hunting and warfare. During the late Paleolithic period, early Egyptians used arrowheads made from …
UEFA’s Definition of "Fair Play"
ESPN Soccernet recently reported UEFA’s passage of a new “financial fair play” standard to go in effect in 2013. Stefan Symanski raised the alert back …
Monday Night Football
Monday Night Football is moving to ESPN while Sunday night football is moving to NBC. ABC will not have any NFL broadcasts. NBC needs a …
Kansas City Royals Increase Ticket Prices
The Kansas City Royals are banking on more than just wins to draw fans to Kauffman Stadium in the upcoming 2009 MLB season. Alongside significant …
The "New" Economics of the LPGA
GolfWorld’s Ron Sirak has an interesting article on the LPGA. Endorsement money has begun to flow in to the top players: When Meg Mallon won …
Wrestling with the cricket crisis
Cricket is played at the highest level by ten “test match” nations – India, Australia, England, South Africa, West Indies, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, …
Betting Pools and Expected Values
How a betting pool is structured will affect how people bet [i.e., to belabor the obvious, people respond to incentives]. Here is an example from …
HOW MLS IS EMERGING AND HOW THE LEAGUE ATTRACTS SOME OF THE BIGGEST FOOTBALL PLAYERS
The sudden surge in popularity and sporadic growth of Major League Soccer (MLS) is without controversy one of the shocking accomplishments in the recent soccer …
Kansas City’s Sprint Center Still has No Permanent Major Leauge Sports Tenant, And That’s No Big Deal
The Sprint Center in Kansas City was opened in 2007 to much fanfare. A gorgeous facility built in a struggling downtown area, one of the …